The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1933, Page 4

+e DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WED ESDAY, JULY 26, 1933 HE DAILY WORKER on August 14 is going to take a big step forward. On that date the size of the “Daily” will be enlarged to pages each day and eight pages on Satur- day. It does not mean only that there will be more news in the paper, more features, more phases of the class struggle covered. It means that the Daily Worker will become a more effective agitator, propagandist organizer of the revolution- ary forces. attention of ev reader. How will the help you to organize in your shop? How ith workers in basic industries who are Worker? ‘ 2 DAILY WORKER is more than a newspaper, reporting the events 1 the Ri “New Deal”, fighting prepa It is a political organ, an organizer st determined section of the working class. It contains a pro- a program of day to day resistance to capitalism out of which should be welded the revolutionary trade unions and a mass revo- ry Communist Party. iggle, ¢ g tion n of our readers in improving the Daily The Daily Worker must become a more read- mt readers will be satisfied and continue to Only then can it serve its true function of readers and supporters. saders to spread the Daily Worker , especially in the basic industries, Who w paper. s to be done? sing the establishment of a newspaper for the bolsheviks organizational days gave us some very valuable hints. He e function of distributing a newspaper will help to establish task now of dustri We code: ooting our Party in the basic industries. the major battles against the “New ady see this in the steel code, the many party members read the Daily tin, laying it aside after they have There is not the enthusiasm of ly” as a means of making real contacts in the basic The very best first approach to a worker, in order to enlist ks of the revolutionary trade unions or in the Communist a copy of the Daily Worker. can al But aders think that for any reason the paper does not yet serve pose in the particular industry they are concentrating on, 1 and say why. But they should do more. Where- the necessary information—conditions, r to make the “Daily” serve its func- ed out that a Commu e ef experienc: newspaper should serve for “an. of material, of forces and of resources.” He done: anizational work would immediately become cver so much wider and the success of a single locality would serve nding encouragement to further perfection and a desire to e the e: riences gained by comrades working in other parts ef the ceu tr this were done properly, Lenin said, “This newspaper would be- = pert of an enormous pair of smith’s bellows that would blow of class s‘ruggle and popular indignation into a general con- break through its present narrow bonds of It must fire the class struggle into a broad, ing 17090090 w e in the.United.States... Not only are the attacked, driven to lower levels of starva- control of the state, the Roosevelt regime is shing attack on the employed workers. s * * tic ing enthusiasm is developed not only for reading of the ‘ser but for spreading it far and wide, the Daily Worker will on in the present sharp phase of the class struggle. ar present readers to fire the this enthusiasm. The sed to a higher level of political consciousness boldness of the attack directed against them by the ly the ly Worker carries a complete answer to ram of broad mass struggles. er a better paper. Bui we ask all workers Tell us what the workers think of the Daily Write us what you think is lacking now in the in this hop. * in your Tell us how you think we can that your enthusiasm will be increased and r efforts to spread it. kK it can still be improved, as’ a class conscious vrite in and tell us how. If you have serious so that the Daily Worker staff can discuss it and If any new reader you have obtained has a Worker, this is important for us to know. s the determination to improve the Daily Worker will and the six pages will be not only an increase in size nt in the entire revolutionary function of the Daily learn criticis from your tion for an improved Daily Worker! to a s'x-page “Daily”! When Can We Claim Leadership ? working class will be in a posi-; countless activities in strikes, in hun- tion to fulfill its role as the most| decisive class in the struggle against | painstaking day to day work, that finance capital, as the leader of all| they are loyal and self-sacrificing toiling masses, only if it is headed| revolutionists. Now all members and by a Communist Party which is close-| all ‘Party organizations must at once ly bound up with the decisive strata| Proceed to determine how the work of the workers. But a Communist of the Party can be improved and Party with a very weak and inade-| what practical measures must be quately functioning organization in| adopted in order to guarantee and the big factories and among the de-| carry out the turn in the Party. cisive sections of the American in-| 2 £ . | Ser marches, demonstrations and in| dustrial workers, a Communist Party | whose entire policy, whose entire ag- | itation and propaganda, whose en-| tire daily work not eonventr-ted | on winning over and mobilizing these workers and winning of the factories, a Communist Party which, through, its revolutionary trade union work, does not build highways to the broad-| est masses of workers, cannot lay! Claim to a policy capable of making | ij the leader of the working class| ?'sin the shortest possible time. JS IT POSSIBLE TO CARRY OUT SUCH A TURN IN OUR WORK? OF COURSE IT IS POSSIBLE. The members of the Party have shown in! (E discussion of this letter must not take place merely in a general way. Every nucleus, every organiza- tion, every Party fraction MUST LINK THIS DISCUSSION up with CONCRETE TASKS, working out ways and means how to bring about immediately a real turn in the en- re work of each individual orraniza- tion, for the carrying out of this turn. The leading organs of the Party are responsible to the membership, the membership is responsible to the lead- ing bodies and the Party is respon- sible to the American working class and the international working class —from the Open Letter, SOWER eae By Fred } By EARL BROWDER. (From Comrade Browder’s report | and concluding remarks at-the Ex- traordinary Party Conference.) E carrying through of the reor- ientation of the entire Party to- ward the decisive proletariati ‘masses | | presupposes a stirring up of the en- | tire Party from below, the release of | all the Party’s forces to expression | | and activity; the development of a | healthy Bolshevik self-criticism; the development of collective leadership | and collective work in every unit and | | committee of the Party, a | It will be necessary in connection with making the open letter.the in- | strument to bring about this.change, ; to discuss the letter in every unit and | | committee of the Party and ii every | fraction of the mass organizations. ‘This’ discussion’ must not~be ab- | | stract. It must be directed toward | | reviewing the work of tha’ 'p | lar unit, fraction or committ work should be reviewed in lig) the Open Letter. On the basis of this discussion a resolution on the next tasks in which each one-of these | bodies—unit, committee, or fraetion— sets itself a certain minimum set of control tasks, a certain min’mum that } we must do within a certain time, and that we will check up off every week to see whether we are doing it or not. cu- Copies of these resolutions must be sent to the section, district and na- tional office and furnish the, is for the further concretizing,.of the work of the higher bodies. The: hi, er committees must base themselves on this work of concretization that is done in the lower units and frac- tions of the Party. THAT we are calling for ‘is. not | merely a change in the work of the Central Committee but of the en- tire Party. We can build a mass’ Bol- shevik Party only through ,jhe con- | scious participation of every Party | member. We can build it only thru | controlling the execution of our de- | | cisions, checking up on them, plac- ing definite responsibility for partic- | ular work on each particular «mem- | ber—by helping the nuclei from the section committees, from the district | committees and from the Central) Committee. This should be’done in! | the spirit of helping them to over- come their difficulties and solve their tasks. To achieve this is the purpose | of the Open Letter. This is also the! | reason for the special nature of this Party conference, which is not merely a Central Committee meeting but already involves a broad section’ of | the Party actives, | On the basis of this discussion, | these experiences, we can expect to be able to carry through a real re- freshing of the leadership of the Par- ty from the bottom to top. We can expect to draw into all leading. posts those comrades who have distinguish- ed themselves in mass work, ‘We can draw the fire of seriou Bolshevik mass criticism against all those who remain passive or resist the necessary transformation of the Par- ty’s work in its turn to the masses. We can carry through a consolida- tion of all the healthiest and more | nergetic and most devoted forces of | the Party in all the decisive points of, is why we called this special confer-' The Open Letter | sary forces within itself to establish | Is Open Mass Criticism The Extraordinary Party Conference held on June 7-10 adopted an Open Letter to the membership which was printed in the Daily Worker on July 13th. ve you read the Open Letter? Have you discussed the Open Let- ter? What are the problems of your district, section, unit and fraction in the light of the Open Letter? Discuss these problems, your experi- ences, the steps you are taking to carry out the Letter in the columnsof the Daily Worker. Send in your resolutions outlining the future tasks and the methods decided upon to carry through these tasks. Send in your articles dealing with the many problems raised in your discussions. Take every neces: y step to stir up the entire membership of the Party to a full understanding of the significance of the Letter and how it is to be carried out. We invited the broadest participation of non-Party workers and farmers—all readers of the Daily Werker—to send in their opinions and suggestions to the discussion of the Open Letter. We have already re- ceived a number of such letters. These letters will be of great value in helping the Party improve its mass work, A copy of the Open Letter can be secured from the Workers Li- brary Publishers (in pamphlet form) for one cent. Party leadership. ,ence. This is why we propose to is- ‘The carrying through of this discus- | Sue this Open Letter to the Party. sion does not mean a moratorium on! ‘HO Letter is open mass practical work. On the contrary. Pope ja es The discussion can only be fruitful) Criticism and open mass criticism if it is done in the midst of an in-|/8 ® Powerful force that can even tensified taking up of all the every-|Change the most stubborn habits and day tasks of the entire movement. | can even break down the worst sec- The test of every comrade shall be |tarianism and bureaucratism. We not so much can he speak well about | have had a certain loosening up of these , but can he work well the forces of the Party right here in carrying out this line; how well at this conference. We have had a can he put the Party Open Letter | little freer and more healthy devel- into practice in daily work. lopment: of self-criticism than we * * | have had before, and that is also a LL of the many-sided and often complex tasks which confront our | decisions. I think that we can char- y will be carried through with| acterize most of the speeches in this rT success than ever before, if| conference as a step forward in the we learn the methods of concentra-! gevelopment of self-criticism. tion, if we learn to gather our forces | ers: for the most important tasks, if we WHAT are the concrete measures learn to rouse and organize the new | for taking the Open Letter to ments into the fi + achieve a| U7e8 HERS WO DECOR AEE) a eae correct ar every Party member shall get a copy ply a correct united front police; of the Open Letter; that we shall we learn to promote fresh proletarian! establish a guarantee that this will leading cadres and train them poli-| be done by requiring every Party tically, if we carry on a relentless member to have stamped in his book struggle against “left” and right devi-|a certificate that he has received a ations, and if we develop collective|copy of the letter. work and politically activize the en-| 2) We want every nucleus of the tire Party. |Party, after having discussed the letter, and not just one discussion, but two or maybe three discussions, to adopt a resolution on the basis RE we able to carry through this change? Has the Party the neces- contacts with the masses and trans- form itself into a Bolshevik mass Party? Of course we can do it. With all of its weaknesses, we have a Party which is proletarian in its composi- tion, which is composed of the most loyal, devoted, energetic and enthu- siastic elements, who are really the |in the light of the Open Letter, con- | taining a plan of work for the next ;six months, Every section commit- tee must do the same. Every frac- tion in a mass organization must do must do the same. guarantee for the execution of our ~ of this letter about its own tasks | ithe same, Every District Committee ' vanguard of the American proletar- iat. Our weaknesses can all ba over- come, provided we really mobilize all of our forces, remove every obstruc- tion, with the fullest utilination cf every comrade, maintain Bolshevik un'ty of purpose and effort, estab- lich a real inner Party democracy and fight energetically for the real carry- ing through of the turn to the masses, It depends upon us, The only-guar- antee for the carrying through of the line of this Open Letter is an aroused end active Patty membership, We have faith that the Party members will unitedly respond to this call. That We want to develop such a real popularization of the Open Letter that everybody will be talking about it, not only Party members, but the whole broad group of sympathizers around us. Let the Open Letter be made a means of recruiting these broad non-Party workers into the Party. Let there be a certain amount of socialist competition among our | units as to which one can quickly and most effectively begin a decisive turn to carry out the Open Letter. MRADES, in conclusion, let us point out this, that although our report has emphasized the very pre- carious nature of the present indus- trial production increase that is tak- | ing place, the nature of the infla- tion stimulus as a part of the “New Deal,” and we haye emphasized the | imminence of a fresh collapse of In- dustry and emphasized the sharpen- } ing of the crisis in every respect— let us be vary careful not to develop the idea of waiting for collapse to come in order to bring about the | change in our Party. Ii we wait for | |something outside of ourselves . to | bring the change in our Party, the change will not take place. There is |enly one thing that can make this | |change and this is us—you and I| and every member of the Party. Aj conscious, determined struggle is the ‘only thine thet will put into effect | |the Open Letter, and that is what | We have to secure in the Party to- day. | | We must realize the truth pointed | out inthe 12th Plenum of the} | E.C.C.I. by Comrade Guscev, where he spoke particularly in regard to! | America of the immediate future holding the prospect of very quick developments and changes in the cituation. That 1s more true today than ever before. The American so- cial contradictions and economic contradictions have reached such a proportion, have such explosive pos- \y ities in them, that tremendous historical events may break out about us at any time. We must pre- pare our Pazty for its revolutionary role in the great upheavals coming in the United States. | We can prepare ourselves only if we will actually carry through in ife this course laid down by the Open Letter before this conference. | Comrades, we can take up this ask with greater confidence when we see how. our brether Gevman Party has met more serious tasks than this, and has overcome a thou- | sand-fold more difficulties than we have, even in the conditions under which they are working in Germany at the present time. If "is German Communist Party, with such deter- mination and heroism, succeeds in |meeting the conditions of struggle against the Hitler regime, certainly we will be able to meet the offen- sive of the Roosevelt “New Deal” and establish our Party as a mass! | leader in America also. Certainly, | when we understand that the pro-/ gram of our Party is worked out on the solid foundation of the teach- ings of Lenin, upon the same foun- dation which has produced that ‘ous, revolutionary organiza tion that has brought about the, tvemendous achievements of the building of a socialist society in the Soviet Union, when we understand that our Party is a part of the same world Party as the Soviet Un- ion Communist Party, then we can er! weet confidence in the ability of our Party, in the determination of our Party, to boldly, fearlessly, +. soy erry through the line laid down in the Open Letter of this | conference. | we need a permit. Letters from Our Readers, Criticizes Editorial Dear Comrades: Just a word of criticism on your editorial of Monday, July 10. It seems to me that after so ably ex- posing our New Deal President that it would be a good idea to end up with the information as to what | organization a worker reading this editorial should join and be active along this line of struggle. If I am wrong, comrades, please advise me by mail or in the Daily, as I am unable to buy a Daily as often as I would like to. Advise me what issue you will answer me in. R. D. M. Los Angeles, Cal. Editorial Note:—You are correct in saying that we do not sufficiently appeal to workers to join the Com- munist Party in our editorials that ex- | Pose the Roosevelt “New Deal”, How- ever, we do not think it necessary to end each editorial in this way, The whole paper is an appeal to the work- ers to enter the struggle, to join the | revolutionary unions, to join the un- employed councils, and all other revo- mass organizations that lead gles of the noor farmers, the outh and the workers, espe- cially to join the Communist Party. “Like Rain During a Hot Spell” Dear Comrades: Responding to vour request for criticism of the Worker I may say that I read eagerly your “Day by Day with the Daily’ and wish you could give us even more dope along ts line that will hely us to increase our sales.. Most of the Daily recd- ers here are ex-servicemen and I know it would help if you could print a good deal more about the veterans I am very glad to get the recent , articles by Earl Browder and they help me in selling the paper because I can recommend it on the strength of those articles; they are so keen and clear; let's have more by him. I eat up anything W. Z. Foster writes, too, and wish he could con- tribute often. Give us plenty of beck, theatre and movie news. I m also glad to see you include the able of contents of The ‘Commu- nist when it comes out and of New Masses; I wish you , would extend that to several other magazines. I am always interested in the for- j eign news, especially from the fas- cist countri Germany and Italy. Why don’t we get more news about Things can’t be so lovely Let’s have more on the pro- being made in China, too. Of out here we are especially in- terested in news on the agrarian problem so you can’t give us too much on that. I should like to see more on what I ‘suppose would. be called Party tactics, too. Some of the readers get a little tired of read- ing about what is wrong all the time; they want to know more about how to make things right However, the Daily Worker, 1s OK. and fisuratively speaking, a Godsend to us out here and we ap- preciate it like a rain during a hot ary spell. E. M. Fitzroy, Hecla, South Dakota: Why Not a Comic Strip? Comrade Editer: I wish to conevatulate you and your competent staff upon the success and growth of the “Daily” to six pages. | I would like to suggest tnat you start a cartoon strip in the paper. Such a strip could depict especially famous ikes and labor struggles. It could n too. This, I am sure would erest and build the circula- The capitalist press uses this . I don’t see why we I think that we have much re interesting and more vital stor- ies to tell. It is true that capitalist papers syndicate such features, thus reducing the expense. We too could syndicate such strips with local pap- ers_as “The Liberator,” “The Voice of Boro Park,” “The Hunger Fight- | er,” “The Southern Worker,” etc. —A comrade. For Greater Promptness Section 11 of our Pariy issued the following leaflet: WORKERS OF SHEEPSHEAD BAY:—On account of rain, last week's discussion on the Roosevelt, Recovery Bill will be held Saturday, July 8a,8 p.m. Your questions will be answered by Burd.—speaker. The workers in the neighborhood |took this announcement seriously. They came,to the corner a few min- utes before 8. When the speaker ar- rived on TIME, eight sharp, he found already two Negro and six white workers looking for the meeting. ‘Until 8:45, no one else from the sec- tion showed up. Workers came and left. Finally, the workers, upon the suggestion of the speakers, volunteer- ed, one to act as chairman, one to bring a chair, one to call the police and secure the permit, and one to buy a flag. By nine o'clock, the meeting was going on already. The workers listened very carefully to the discus- sion. A policeman came and tried to stop the meeting, claiming that The crowd got bigger and all were against breaking up the meeting. “Let him speak,” “We want to hear about the bill.” “He is right, it is a slavery bill,” was heard from all sides. The cop had to retreat. Were it not for the irresponsibility of some comrades in the section, the meeting would have brought organ- izational . results. M. Burd. means educating and training the classes and consequently the masses.”--Lenin - “The attitude of a political party towards its errors is one of the: most important and surest criterions of the seriousness of the party, and of how it fulfills in practice its obligations towards the laboring masses. To admit a mistake openly, to disclose its reasons, to analyze the surroundings which created it, to study attentively the means of correcting this mistake, - these are the signs of a serious party, this means a performance of its duties, this “Superlatives of Praise” Dear Sir? It is difficult to write you about th Daily Worker without using superla tives of praise. It is my belief tha every article in the Worker of Jul 22 (Saturday), for example, was clear ly_and excellently written. Suc! valuable articles as, Earl Browder’s o: “Building a Broad Movement to Wi) Social Insurance” are especiall: praiseworthy, Browder’s article give extremely useful information for con. tradicting the falsehoods of th sabotagers of the Social Insuranc Fight. Such.keen. analyses of othe) phases of the class struggle are great ly needed. Sections as Questions and Answer on the N.LR.A. are very effective { dispelling illusions about that mur derous act. I think it might be mor effective, if the questions were aské: by workers themselves (perhaps the are?). ‘The’ article which tells how sor sort of*'@ defense against tear g. attacks has been fashioned is of ex- treme Value in encouraging those (if any) timid among strikers. More at- | tention should be devoted to counter- | acting*physical and chemical attack | upon the workers and the informa. tion spread rapidly. ‘There is one little question I shoulé like to-have you answer—if politic Four or ‘five months ago, in the drive to secure funds to maintain the Work- er it was claimed that a shortage of funds ‘fight completely shut down the circulation. How is it going tc be financially possible to print a 6- page daily and 8-page Saturday is- sue? “¥ admit the urgent necessity for so doing, but some of us may think of the fable of the shepherd boy and the wolf. Jf possible, then I think it indispensable. I miss, and I imagine many others miss, “Sparks” greatly. Is the colum- nist on vacation? Let’s have him back! : Yours Sincerely, Reader, It is true that the increase in size to six pages daily and eight pages Saturday ‘will at the same time fn- crease our financial burden, which many times in the past has threaten- ed to'swamp even our four page paper.. The reason for enlarging the Daily Worker, however, is more basic. The greater needs of the workers and the increased attacks on them on all fronts, make the six-page ‘Daily’ ab- solutely. necessary. We are taking this sten despite ou financial burden, because we hay faith in~the determination of ow. readers ‘to ‘respond to our greater needs by: popularizing the six-page paper. » Circulation must be increas- ed, new subscriptions secured. Steps should be taken to initiate a sustain- ing fund. If our readers do these things, the six-page Daily Worker will be able to carry on and to improve steadily. Jt is up to our readers to see that they are don Note ym a Farmer Daily Dear Friends: I read and pay for the Daily since it is in existence. I am not a mem- ber of the Party, but I do my best for thé revolutionary class struggle among the farmers. I really got mac when I-saw’ that the Party member: do not’ do the work that they shoul do. The letter opened my eyes! De- spite the fact that I can’t handle the English language so good, I sat down and wrote. the enclosed letter to you. Rewrite it in good English and print it. Don’t mention my name. I work for the Pa. Highway Dept. and have a small farm. I am blacklisted already beeause I attend the meetings of the United Farm Association of | Pennsylvania and try to enforce a more Communistic activity. I am not a@ member of that organization yet because -I want to organize a local in our township or in a nearby town- | ship on'a’'more class-conscious basis. But the petty-bourgeois enemies are still too’strong in our township. But that has nothing to do with it. “Even if it takes one year loriger, the local will be organized on a real Commu- nist base, That is necessary to pre- vent the absorbing of the farmers by the social-patriots like Lewin, com- mission merchant from Philadelphia and owner of.a farm in Montgomery County. .I already had a fight with him in a meeting.”. the U..F. of Pa, and he is working against it... And there ate a few more'like him yet in the or- ganization. ~ . And another thing. The Daily don’t bring enough news from sylvania. Fight the Grundy Pinchot machine. Every week there should -he;a. few columns from Penn- sylvania. - Value of Open Air Meets’ * Brooklyn, N. Y. Dear Comiades: Passifig @ street corner in the Brownsvillé “section of Brooklyn «a few’ moriths ago, I saw a meeting which Was conducted by our fellow- workers.’ T’ stopped to listen and |‘ was very much impressed by they had to say. I saw how I was Up till now to believe the ca-. pitalist propaganda about returning prosperity. .I studied subject closer and ‘T’am now an ardent sym: pathizer. your cause, % I havent seen any such meetings since then. I think if they would continue “"ve2> corner meetings, they could win over many others like me to be ‘conscious workers. en